Summary: Village life in the 1820s, whether in Germany or France, was much the same as it was in the Middle Ages. The peasantry was seen as a cash-cow for the landowning aristocracy, or for the government, according to circumstances. In this black-and-white German language film, the citizens of Kombach have been pushed beyond their limit, and they organize to steal back their tax money (and some more besides). (allmovie.com)

AKA: The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

Genre: Drama

Country: West Germany

Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff

Written By: Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff

Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Reinhard Hauff, Wolfgang Bächler, Karl-Heinz Merz, Walter Buschhoff, Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Harald Müller, Joe Hembus, Maria Donnerstag, Angelika Hillebrecht

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